Arthur Schwartz Quotes

What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.

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• The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Soul
  • Law
  • Balance

• Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Fan
  • Matt Morrison
  • Lea Michele

• Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.

  

  Kai Bird
  • World
  • American
  • Law

• In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Children
  • Theatre
  • Collaboration

• When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Changed
  • Kid
  • Loudest

• The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Perfect
  • Mistake
  • Learn

• A lot of our fiscal deficit went to fund consumption and really did not get used to build investment and infrastructure. The trouble is, you can get a spurt in GDP growth, which may not be sustainable. I would much rather build the gradient of a long-term marathon.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Long
  • May
  • You

• Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • World
  • Children
  • Stop

• The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Book
  • Travel

• As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Music
  • God
  • Real

• I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!

  

  Adam Faith
  • People
  • Job
  • Opportunity

• If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • Kind
  • Priorities

• I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Old
  • Dictionary
  • Cap

• I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Always

• For me, photography is not just about exposing film, it's about exposing the viewer to something new, a place they haven't gone before, but most importantly, to people that they might be afraid of.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
  • Film
  • Photography

• The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.

  

  Jack Anderson
  • Insurance
  • Boxes
  • Box

• Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Mind
  • Stop

• Indoors or out, no one relaxesIn March, that month of wind and taxes,The wind will presently disappear,The taxes last us all the year.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Wind
  • March

• The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • Life
  • Baby

• Farewell! if ever fondest prayerFor other's weal avail'd on high,Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.

  

  Lord Byron
  • High
  • Lost
  • Air

• Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were way louder, heavier, and faster than the traditional blues that I was listening to.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • English
  • Artists
  • Blues

• When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Mother
  • Independent

• The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out.

  

  Paul Keating
  • People
  • Party
  • Morning

• What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.

  

  Arthur Schwartz